Out of the past 7/24/09

25 years ago: July 24, 1984

An early morning fire yesterday in a Cape Girardeau lumberyard is believed to be a result of arson; firefighters arrived at the M.E. Leming Lumber Co. to find a pile of lumber estimated to be worth $1,500 burning in the yard.

Jackson School Board president Bruce Dockins resigns from the board, having been named a director of the Cape County Bank in Jackson.

50 years ago: July 24, 1959

General salary increases were granted to members of the faculty, tuition fees were increased for the approaching school year, and personnel matters were transacted yesterday among business items at a meeting of the State College Board of Regents; salary increases amount to $55,000 for 161 faculty and other staff members.

Dearmont Quadrangle, honoring the late Dr. W.S. Dearmont, for 23 years president of State College, has been selected as the name for the new women's dormitory now being constructed on the campus.

75 years ago: July 24, 1934

Because of the extremely hot weather, Judge L.L. Bowman announces jury trials in Common Pleas Court, scheduled to have started yesterday, won't begin until Aug. 30; A.M. Spradling, speaking for the attorneys, suggested a recess until the days are cooler.

Seventy men are added to the working force at the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. plant to load barges; the company has secured a contract to supply 130,000 barrels of concrete to the government; the men added to the force will carry the cement, which is packed in bags, to government barges from the loading docks.

100 years ago: July 24, 1909

Charley Bushong, superintendent of the new federal building at the corner of Broadway and Fountain Street, Thursday raised the flag staff on the big structure and ran The Republican newspaper's flag up to the breeze; the staff, mounted on top of the big stone edifice, is 40 feet tall.

A telegram to The Republican from Rep. Charles A. Crow says that President William Howard Taft will probably stop an hour in Cape Girardeau when he passes down the Mississippi River in October on his way to New Orleans.

-- Sharon K. Sanders